"“**Whom the gods wish to destroy**,” [[Cyril Connolly]] famously said, “they **first call promising**.” Twenty-five hundred years before that, the elegiac poet [[Theognis]] wrote to his friend, “The **first thing, Kurnos, which gods bestow on one they would annihilate, is pride**.” Yet we pick up this mantle on purpose!" ([Location 969](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01AWUTMB0&location=969)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[parenting]], [[ego]], [[pride]], [[humility]], [[self-reflection]], [[progressing-slowly]], [[patience]] **Source** -- [[202409161103 - B - Ego is the Enemy]]